bridge harp installation and 10×10

This morning we completed the installation of my new long string instrument in the girders of a bridge along the river in Chattanooga for a new public program called 10×10.It will be running through Saturday, April 21 at the amphitheater beneath the Woodland Street Bridge, near the Hunter Museum.

sample of the sound after the installation
longer, higher quality sound sample taken a few days later

more documentation and links to recordings of the sounds will are here or will be by Friday, April 20

Tyler Cooney and Jesse Bruen helped me in the studio with construction. Dylan Orlady, Katie Hudson, and Paul Orlady traveled with me to assemble and install it. Dylan’s extended contributions of work and knowledgeable advice really made this happen. I wouldnt have been able to this without such help. Dylan also took all the pictures so we dont have images of him working on it but he spent more time up in the air than I did.

Zeitgeist and Coop put together a group exhibition as a  joint venture in a warehouse for 10×10. I have three works in that show as well. Lain York (below) and Patrick DeGuira handled much of the work for that project

10×10 is lead by Kate Creason for makework. Thanks to her and Allie O’Connell for organizing the program and inviting me.

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simple pieces made from photos and Processing


same image run through the software two different ways, one shows the source the other hides it- nothing impressive in the code, just a simple reinterpretation of the landscape in the image- Devil’s Golf Course, Death Valley, CA

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back to Trenchtown

heading to Kingston on Friday to screen the Trenchtown documentary to the people who are in it. Full release should be this Fall.

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exhibition opening 01.05 at Zeitgeist

Exhibit Your Symptom – group exhibition at Zeitgeist opens January 5

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updates

KMA shows are down. Many thanks go to Clark, Robmat, and Stephen there + Chad and Jason Brown at UT.  I posted some more about the sound installation on this page and put the first track from the installation on my soundcloud page

currently making arrangements for the Jamaica Documentary to go to Kingston in January and elsewhere in the Summer and Fall. Getting some new work together for upcoming shows and taking some sculpture to Zeitgeist for a show in two weeks.

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sound installation with transducers at KMA has started


turning windows into speakers in a very large space…

Jesse Thompson and I got this installed in the Great Hall of the KMA last weekend with the help of Chad Williams, Jason Brown, and Robmat, we had to get back home for a week or so and I am giving a lecture on the Trenchtown show this weekend but the system, running in PD, should be complete by the end of next week. Editing and coding the sounds to work with the glass and scale of the room has been interesting. Thanks also to Jan and Sylvia Peters for their hospitality.

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2 new exhibitions open

just opened two shows – the Knoxville Museum of Art and the Trenchtown documentary has been edited into a 3 channel synced video installation, showing here
at home

sound installation for KMA and a work for show called FAX there coming up later this month

images of the new sculptures are posted on this page  + I will post more pics in this site in a few days

thanks to Clark Gillespie, Stephen Wicks, Chris Molinski, Robmat, Chad Williams, and Jason Brown in Knoxville for all their help at the museum and UTK

thanks and praise to Jesse Thompson, Mary Evelyn Pritchard, Charlotte Caldwell, Sam Sanderson, Natalie Baxter, Tyler Cooney and Shelley MacLaren for help with the post production, installation, and exhibition preparations, for the Trenchtown videos.

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